-Waded through boxes and piles of colored pages, stories, tracings of hands + feet, and the cutest little stick people drawings you've ever seen. I sorted out our favorites from the collection.

-Once I had our favorites picked out I organized them by child + age/grade level.

-I purchased file boxes + folders from Office Max and organized each child's memorabilia into their own file box.

I loved Jen's idea of making a cover sheet for each year's folder. I decided to design a label for each year that could be printed off easily and filled in with each child's information. Along with the label, I attached that years school photo to the front of the folder using self adhesive picture corners. When the files are slipped into the clear file boxes it's easy to see who the box belongs to. Plus, each file box is stored in an easily accessible place making it handy to add to the collection when those special treasures come home from school.

The labels I made go from Preschool through 12th grade and were designed to be printed onto Avery 3 1/3x4" Shipping Labels. If you would like to use them to organize your children's school papers and memorabilia you can download + print them here. Happy organizing!

it's only week three of the school year and the side of my fridge is loaded. you weren't kidding about all this paperwork jazz. +++totally inspired by you this week. on my list:organize utensil + junk drawer.purchase cook book.make apron.start luc's save box. +++thanks for being my friend.love, lin

Hi! I don't know why I can't see these pictures! I see your others just fine, but not these ones. And I really, really need help with organizing my children's school papers! lol.Maybe this is a silly question, but do you see the pictures okay at your end? I see you have several comments, so maybe it's my computer being finicky! The labels are too cute, and I will start organizing with those. Thank you!

awesome ideas! i heard from an organizational expert that she has a bin for each child for ALL of their papers throughout the year. she doesn't worry about picking the best and throwing some until the end of the year. then the child helps pick the best and goes through them each year to thin out the ones they don't love as much as the new ones. :) thanks for your ideas!

Friends, it looks like the file has been compromised. Perhaps from too much downloading? I'm not a computer whiz so be patient with me as I try to come up with a solution. I'll be sure to post an updated download link on this post when it's available. xo.

Just downloaded the labels--I love Google Docs. Thanks to you, I am inspired to organize my children's schoolwork. I'm off to get labels today and got the file boxes yesterday. Thanks so much for sharing your great ideas!

What a brilliant idea!! I've tried to do this for years; now the hard part--weeding thru the reams of papers all my children have accumulated from over the years that I just couldn't bear to part with!! I hope I'm able to take a photo of their art & "recycle" the original :(

Hi! This is such an amazing idea...I bought my labels and am all ready to go but I can't get it to print correctly. I saw in the earlier comments the file has been messed up. Can you by chance email it to me? I would really appreciate it! My email is harrolda@hotmail.com

Thanks for sharing the idea...I just love the way you designed the labels too!

I just put my daughters box together (entering 4th grade) and started by youngest daughters box (entering Kinder), and as I was filling out the labels (name, teacher, etc.) I thought it would have been a great idea to have my daughter filling out the label each year. It would be a great way to add a personal touch and to see how her penmanship changes along with her school photo each year. I will be having my youngest fill out her own label (neatly) once she starts school in the fall. Also, while at Office Depot I came across 5x7 photo/document holders (clear) that stick on to a surface. I bought them ($3 for 5) and stuck them on the folder. Beacuse it is like a clear envelope and closed, I was able to add any extra school pics that I had also. Thanks for the great start and inspiration to finally stat this project!!!.

I printed these labels last year but as I went to print them this year the labels in the PDF are off and do not have all the school years, help!If it'd be easier you could email me the file? Thank you for your great idea!!!carolineshillig@gmail.com

I love this idea! Here in Italy I don't know where to buy those boxes with relative dividers, where did you get them from? I got so inspired! I'm going to organise my own artwork from when I was a child, my mom kept it for all these years (41).

I also cannot print these. For some reason, the file downloads incomplete. Most of the words are missing. If you can still email this file out, and would have time, and would be willing (chuckle), could you please send it to: lnlebeau@gmail.com? Thank you so much, Lori.

Hi ... I really love these labels but there is info missing from the PDF. Some don't have the grade heading, others are missing the info on the left. If you would be willing to email me the file please reply to this message. Thanks!